Forty-seventh annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, for the year ending Sept. 30, 1889 : transmitted to the legislature March, 1890 / New York State Lunatic Asylum.
- New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1890
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Forty-seventh annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, for the year ending Sept. 30, 1889 : transmitted to the legislature March, 1890 / New York State Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![s> EEPOET OF THE SUPEEINTENDENT. To the Board of Managers of the Asylum: Gentlemen.—In compliance with the act organizing this hospital, the following report of its operations for the year ending Septem¬ ber 30, 1889, is respectfully submitted: Men. Women. Total. Number at the commencement of the year.... 310 301 611 Received from September 30, 1888, to Septem¬ ber 30, 1889...... 249 217 466 Whole number treated. 559 518 1,077 Daily average under treatment .... Discharged recovered. 63 63 645^| 126 Discharged improved... 50 28 78 Discharged unimproved.. 69 66 135 Discharged not insane.. 15 2 17 Died ...... 37 32 69 Whole number discharged.'... 234 191 425 Remaining September 30, 1889. 325 327 652 There were 466 patients admitted during the year (249 men and 217 women), which number is twenty-two greater than that of the previous year. The highest number under treatment on any one day was 683 ; the lowest number 588 ; the daily average was a little more than 645. The capacity of the hospital is 660. One hundred and seventy-three persons, when admitted, were in a sick and feeble condition; some of them from old age, some as the result of acute or chronic diseases, and others from the general breaking down of health under the labor, anxieties and duties incident to active and laborious life. [Senate, No. 13.] 3](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30317691_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
